townships of North Allerton and Brompton as could read, and by reason of their poverty could not buy such books for themselves; and after such of the poorest and most indigent were furnished therewith, then for providing the like for others of the said towns that might want them, and who should be thought persons likely to make a good and proper use of such books. To employ (if there should be occasion) the yearly sum of £5 in physic, and things necessary in recovery of the health of such poor persons of the said townships of North Allerton and Brompton, as by reason of their poverty were exempt from payment to the church and poor, or for such other persons of the said townships as were really poor and sick, and not able to be at the charge of physic and things necessary. To employ the yearly sum of £5 for clothes, for such poor widows or widowers, or other poor housekeepers within the said townships, as were in want, and had been industrious, and constantly frequenters of the church, and of sober and peaceable demeanor; such clothing to be provided and delivered before the 1st November yearly. To employ £4 yearly in teaching and instructing the children of such poor people as aforesaid, the girls to read English intelligibly, and to knit and sew, so as to render them capable of getting an honest livelihood, and the boys to be taught to read and to write, and cast accounts, so as to qualify them for being bailiffs, or servants to gentlemen, or to be set out to some honest trade. To employ the yearly sum of £6 for setting out yearly one boy, the son of some poor person inhabiting within one of the said townships, such as should be fatherless or motherless, if both, to have the preference, and always one who could say the church catechism, and could read, write, and cast accounts as aforesaid, and upon further trust, that in case there should be any surplus of the said rents after the several trusts aforesaid should have been performed, or in case there should not be occasion yearly to lay out so much on any one of the particular purposes aforesaid, to lay out and employ the same to such other of the purposes aforesaid as the said minister and said two inhabitants, or any two of them, should think fit, or else in furnishing some apprentice in one of the said townships, or one who had served his apprenticeship out of the said townships, if he was set out by virtue of that trust towards setting him up in his trade, and buying him work tools, so as the sum of any one apprentice did not exceed 40s.: and upon further trust, that if it should happen, that there were any youth of either of the said townships, of piety, parts, and good improvement in school learning, whose friends were not able of themselves to maintain him at either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, but who might be educated there by the help of such a sum yearly as this charity might supply, the said minister and trustees when they should see cause, should employ part, or the whole, as need should be, of the yearly rent and profits of the said premises towards the maintenance of such youth at either of the aforesaid universities, for the full space of four years and no longer. For preserving the said trust, it was declared, that the two inhabitants to be appointed for the execution of the trust as aforesaid, should be chosen by the major part of the surviving trustees, from the substantial inhabitants of North Allerton and Brompton, one out of each township, and that upon the death of any one of the said two inhabitants, another should be elected or chosen by the said minister for the time being, and the other surviving trustee from time to time as occasion should require, or by the minister alone in case of difference, and in his absence by the curate, and that when any four of the said parties of the second part should die, the survivors should convey the said premises to themselves, and to four more good and sufficient persons, and their heirs, and so from time to time as often as the number of the trustees should be reduced to two. The farm is let to a yearly tenant at the annual rent of £70, in addition to which the trustees receive the interest of £650 purchase money for a portion of land sold to the North Eastern railway company. The income is applied as follows: Forty pounds is now applied to the purposes of education, being £20 for the township of North Allerton and £20 for Brompton. A sum varying upon an average from £22 to £25 a-year, is applied in finding clothing for poor people; the money being laid out by the trustees in the purchase of cloth for coats and gowns, which is distributed yearly, at Martinmas, between an equal number of poor persons, of both sexes, from each township. Applications for the apprenticing fund of £6, on behalf of objects of the description pointed out by the deed, are not often made; but the trustees, in furtherance of the purpose contemplated by the donor, allow smaller sums of 40s. at a time, in favor of a poor child to be bound apprentice, and the money is paid in part of the apprentice fee. In regard to the provision made for supplying the poor with religious books and medicine, entries occur in the account books of the trustees of sums expended on both those purposes from time to time; of late years, however, it has been the custom to give wine to the poor in time of sickness: bibles and other religious books are furnished by means of the funds, for the use of the national school, which, in the absence of application for them from the poor themselves, is considered to fulfil the purpose intended by the charity. In applying the income as above stated, the trustees acting under the discretion given to them by the deed of 1694, of employing the surplus rents of the estate on such of the objects of the charity as they might think fit, have appropriated the greater part of the revenues to the purposes of education, and of finding clothing for the poor, which are found to be the most generally required, and in the end most beneficial; but there is no reason to believe that the other branches of the charity are neglected, or that they are not duly met and provided for from the funds as occasion may demand. No part of the income has been appropriated to the maintenance of a scholar at either university, for some time, nor have the trustees had any call made upon them for assistance in regard to this object of the trust. An account of the receipts and disbursements is kept by the trustees, and audited at meetings occasionally held for that purpose." LADY CALVERLY. Dame Mary Calverly, widow of sir John Calverly, by will dated 10th May, 1715, gives the residue of a mortgage debt of £1500, upon sir John Husband's estate at Ipsley, Warwicks., (after payment of legacies,) to be invested at interest, or in the purchase of lands, the yearly dividends or rents to be paid amongst such poor people in any of the parishes between, and including North Allerton and Darlington. The sum of £10 a year was duly received from Richard Thompson, esq., of Escrick Park, near York, but after the death of Mr. Thompson in 1820, the trust was in abeyance until 1851, when a new scheme was settled by an order of her Majesty's High Court of Chancery, dated 30th January, 1851, by which the fund is declared to be £1933 14s. 3d., which is invested in the 3 per cent. bank annuities in the names of William Backhouse, Joseph Pease, T. W. Mercer, (vicar,) and Thomas Hamilton; the mode of appropriation is set forth in the said order as follows: "That after payment of the necessary and reasonable expenses attending the trust, the interest and dividends of the said bank annuities shall be distributed and applied by the said trustees towards the relief of the most deserving poor, sick, and infirm people, not receiving parochial relief, inhabitants of any of the parishes betwixt North Allerton and Darlington, including (if there should be in the judgment of the trustees special circumstances to call for it) any inhabi The present acting trustees are the rev. T. W. Mercer, vicar, the rev. W. J. Middleton, incumbent of Brompton, and Mr. William Dixon of North Allerton. tant or inhabitants of the two last-named parishes, to be applied in the discretion of the said trustees in medical attendance, provision, fuel, blankets, or clothing, but nevertheless the trustees are to be at liberty, in cases of emergency, and where it shall appear that a small pecuniary assistance would be usefully bestowed, to make donations in money, at their discretion, but in such cases the trustees shall make a special minute thereof, and of the reasons for which such relief shall be given in money." MRS. ELIZABETH RAINE, By indentures of lease and release, the release bearing date the 15th October, 1737, Elizabeth Raine,* widow, for the consideration therein mentioned, conveyed unto George Prissick, James Meuburn, and William Kirby, their heirs and assigns, two closes, called Yarn Acres, lying within the township of Romanby, containing by estimation 11 acres, with the appurtenances upon trust, out of the rents and profits thereof to distribute amongst such of the poor people of Romanby aforesaid, as the trustees, together with the overseers of the poor of Romanby for the time being should think most deserving, and in the most needful circumstances, the sum of 20s. upon Christmas-eve, every year, in such proportions as Mrs. Raine was interred on the 14th Aug., 1739; on her tomb stone on the south side of the church is the following inscription— Here lies the Body of In her life time she settled lands |